Content beyond the screen space
Photography at the Cinema
Precursor - Photography that challenges the subject-hood of performance and identity Static media - of “performance"
(image above) Tseng Kwong Chi, New York, New York, 1979
from the Self Portrait series 1979-1989
Cindy Sherman http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1170
Untitled Film Still #23, 1978
Yasumasa Morimura
Self Portrait - After Greta Gerbo 1, 1996
James Franco as Cindy Sherman in New Film Stills, 2012
Performance Video
1) Documentation purpose
Miranda July, THINGS WE DON’T UNDERSTAND AND DEFINITELY ARE NOT GOING TO TALK ABOUT, 2006 -
Marina Abramović, The Artist Is Present, 2010
http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/965
2) Performance made for video
William Wegman, Two Dogs and Ball, 1972
Colin Self, Miranda July as Colin Self as Joanna Newsom singing Peach, Plum, Pear, 2009
3) Video as aid to the live performance
Klaus Obermaier & Ars Electronica Futurelab, Apparition, 2012
Device and Functions
1) Subversion of the device’s original functions
Steina Vasulka, Summer Salt, 1982
Steina and Woody Vasulka
2) Formal investigation of apparatus
Rodney Graham, Torqued Chandelier Release, 2004
3) Live Performance
Open Reel Ensemble
4) Invention
Eric Siu, Touchy, 2011-2012
Seriality/Narratives
1) Spatial experience
Pipilotti Rist, Pour Your Body Out (7354 Cubic Meters), 2008-2009
Douglas Gordon, 24-hour Psycho Back and Forth and To and From, 2010
24-hour Psycho, 1993
Douglas Gordon, Through a Looking Glass, 1999
2) Sculptural extension
Site -specific
Jim Campbell, Scattered Light, 2010
Madison Square Park Conservancy
Interactive
Golan Levin, Messa di Voce, 2003
Rafael Lozano-Hammer, Body Movies, 2001
Relational Architecture
Reporters with Borders, 2007